With the year coming to a close, the major book and ebook retailers have started posting their "best of" lists.

Barnes & Noble, for example, took the opportunity to market certain books on lists that don't even come close to representing actual best sellers. I won't repeat them here, but I thought you would be interested in the best seller lists released by Amazon, Google, and Apple.

I've embedded the lists later in this post so you can see how they differ.

All three lists are similar, but Apple's and Google's list share seven of the same titles while Amazon's list only has two or three titles in common with the other lists.

All the lists are biased towards the heavily promoted titles from major publishers, but the lists from Google and Apple are biased towards the same particular titles.

Interesting, no?

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Amazon's 2015 top best-selling books list is influenced by print and ebook sales. According to Amazon, the best-selling print book of 2015 was Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee and the best-selling Kindle book was The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. The complete list is 20 titles long and includes a couple coloring books, although I'm only going to cite the first ten here:

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E.L. James

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Memory Man by David Baldacci

Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham

The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Silent Scream by Angela Marsons

Amazon also released a top 20 list for YA/kid's books, which you can find here.

Apple's list was considerably harder to find, and also included far more detail. The not one but four lists include fiction, nonfiction, free, and audiobooks, but the lists can only be found in iBooks.

I'll detail the fiction list below, but the other lists are worth perusing if you have the time. The fictionalized biography American Sniper took first place on the nonfiction list, and you might also be surprised to see that the user manuals for iOS 8.4 took the two top spots in the free books list.

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Nate Hoffelder is the founder and editor of The Digital Reader:"I've been into reading ebooks since forever, but I only got my first ereader in July 2007. Everything quickly spiraled out of control from there. Before I started this blog in January 2010 I covered ebooks, ebook readers, and digital publishing for about 2 years as a part of MobileRead Forums. It's a great community, and being a member is a joy. But I thought I could make something out of how I covered the news for MobileRead, so I started this blog."